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Post by bmfjules on Dec 31, 2020 15:54:10 GMT -5
2nd Man to win the NWA and WWE World Titles: Ric Flair. The original Nature Boy, Buddy Rogers, had been the only man to have held both titles until Flair’s win at the 1992 Rumble. Though, technically Flair is actually the 1st man to win both titles since Rogers’s WWE Title “win” didn’t actually happen; WWE claimed that Rogers won the title in a tournament in South America, but in reality, they just gave him the title and made up the tournament. Rogers and Flair would later be joined by AJ Styles in having won the NWA and WWE World Titles. That's a really weird/neat bit of trivia considering how TNA at one point tried to literally make Styles into the re-incarnation of Flair.
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Post by bmfjules on Dec 17, 2020 14:00:22 GMT -5
NXT simulcast after Cody announces he has bought NXT from WWE only for Pharaoh to buy it out from under him.
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Post by bmfjules on Dec 2, 2020 9:24:49 GMT -5
Idk either the 12th or 18th time he AA’d the Big Show. Stop being ridiculous.
No one can AA the Big Show.
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Post by bmfjules on Dec 2, 2020 9:22:03 GMT -5
And that's why Big Show was never invited back on Shark Tank.
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Post by bmfjules on Dec 2, 2020 9:19:24 GMT -5
"By God, it's King Austin! It's King Austin!"
"HEAR YE, HEAR YE! By royal decree, I hereby declare that Austin 3:16 says I just whooped thy ass!"
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Post by bmfjules on Nov 27, 2020 18:55:45 GMT -5
ECW could have used him, but may have been heat with Heyman. WCW's roster was bloated till the end with big contracts and tons of pre-liminary talent.
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Post by bmfjules on Nov 23, 2020 13:08:39 GMT -5
MONSTER MASH PART DEUX! (2010 edition)
Big Zeke vs Vance Archer vs Vladimir Kozlov vs BROCK LESSSSNAAAR
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Post by bmfjules on Sept 4, 2020 15:20:21 GMT -5
Bobby Roode's whole gimmick was made to have that belt.
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Post by bmfjules on Sept 1, 2020 12:05:28 GMT -5
It is an ex-Show show.
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Post by bmfjules on Aug 6, 2020 7:51:33 GMT -5
A replacement for Stan Lane? Steve Keirn. The other half of The Fabulous Ones. Eddie Gilbert. Though I think he and Cornette would eventually be like oil & water. Matt Borne. But only if he could keep his demons in check. Eaton and Gilbert would have been good in the ring and you'd have someone besides young Corny who could talk his ass off.
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Post by bmfjules on Aug 5, 2020 16:19:06 GMT -5
I believe the story is Elvis Presley's father Vernon was negotiating with Memphis for Elvis to do a program in Memphis of some kind involving Lawler, before he passed away in 1977. (I don't remember the source of that claim, but I remember the germ of the idea clearly enough)
If that had happened, you could add Elvis Aaron Presley to the list of Elvis themed wrestlers.
Short of that, on top of what is already listed, Andy Kaufman had a famous Elvis impersonation and also wrestled, but the two acts did not mix if I recall correctly.
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Post by bmfjules on Jun 22, 2020 10:14:50 GMT -5
I kind of wish this had happened just for the absurdity of the gigantic plot hole of, "... So why doesn't someone just make them tap instead?" From previous shoot interviews I've heard, I believe Ole Anderson is the one credited with shooting the idea down by saying as soon as he was in the ring with one of them he'd hook them into a shoot submission and that would be the end of their undefeated streak.
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Post by bmfjules on May 3, 2020 13:42:14 GMT -5
Are we talking WCW as strictly from 1988 to 2001 or including Jim Crocket Promotions as a forerunner as well? If not - Sting, Flair, Hogan, Goldberg
If so - Dusty, Flair, Sting, Hogan (Goldberg gets bumped off due to the length of his run)
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Post by bmfjules on Apr 24, 2020 15:50:35 GMT -5
For context and reference for this thread, all current male WWE workers born January 1990 or after: RAW: Akam - May '93 Angel Garza - September '92 Angelo Dawkins - July '90 Austin Theory - Aug '97 Humberto Carrillo - Oct '95 Rezar - June '94 Montez Ford - May '90 Smackdown Bo Dallas - May '90 Otis - Dec '91 Tucker Knight - July '90 NXT Cameron Grimes - Sep '93 Jake Atlas - Oct '94 James Drake - Mar '93 Kona Reeves - June '92 Mansoor - Oct '95 Pete Dunne - Nov '93 Raul Mendoza - Nov '90 Velveteen Dream - Aug '95Zack Gibson - Aug '90 Andrade barely misses it, born in Nov '89 Well now I feel old and unaccomplished. Just the start my day needed! haha Just realized Velveteen Dream was 10 years old when John Cena won his first world title..... yikes.....
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Post by bmfjules on Apr 24, 2020 9:32:58 GMT -5
There are similarities between the British Invasion style bands and the boy bands/bubblegum pop of the early 2000s. Both genres saw groups that were in some cases created entirely by marketing teams--The Monkees for instance were literally a band created by a record label to have an American Beatles. Both movements, as well as every other movement you can think of from 50s rock to 80s hair metal had groups that were nothing but fluff and whose careers died out as soon as the next trend took hold, and groups that proved that they were more than just riders of a fad. The Beatles I think can safely fall into the latter category.
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Post by bmfjules on Apr 24, 2020 9:22:15 GMT -5
People born in the 80s caught the intersection of two boom periods, the Hogan one when they were very young (target age) and the Austin/NWO one when they were teenagers (target age again) so just stems to reason, the more eyeballs that are on the product, that there will be a greater pool of people to draw from who make the jump from fan to performer.
Folks born in the 90s were mostly too young for the attitude era and there were far less people watching in general in the Cena era so a smaller pool of people to draw from to make said jump makes mathematical sense.
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Post by bmfjules on Apr 22, 2020 23:15:08 GMT -5
A personal one for me: when the Montreal screwjob happened, I was in my first semester of Kindergarten. When Bret returned to the wwe and embraced hbk, I was a second semester senior in high school When I was in Kindergarten, the Undertaker and Hulk Hogan were wrestling for the WWF title. When I was a senior in high school, the Undertaker and Hulk Hogan were wrestling for the WWF title.
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Post by bmfjules on Apr 16, 2020 11:45:47 GMT -5
I think Ken Shamrock did it once in the wwf I swear Scott Steiner used to beat up refs all the time in WCW as well.
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Post by bmfjules on Apr 16, 2020 11:43:22 GMT -5
All of these had the same cause: Hogan's contract This is where Vince McMahon (pre going senile) always defeats Eric Bischoff in any promotional war replayed 1000 times over. McMahon is a born promoter, booker and a hands-on general.
No one ever talks about Bischoff getting them to agree to stuff they were originally opposed to via "jedi mind tricks" like Vince did and still does occasionally... From all reports, Bischoff was a hands off middle management type who tried to fix everything with more money, less dates, and more creative control offered to big stars creating a giant mess. It's like fighting a war where one side has a regular sized army with Julius Caesar in charge and the other side has legions upon legions but it's up to a former errand boy that no one respects or will listen to attempting to order the soldiers around.
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Post by bmfjules on Apr 14, 2020 11:37:10 GMT -5
I think short term it has to be Bret. Rarely are you gifted a top performer with those controversial circumstances like that. Hard to screw that up, but WCW found a way. Long term it has to be Goldberg, he likely wasn’t in it for the long haul but they should have been able to find a way to keep him hot for way longer than they did. I think Sting short term as well. The whole show was built around this man of mystery for a year and a half almost. Maybe this works: Screwing up Sting sunk their past work and present, screwing up Bret killed their immediate future, and screwing up Goldberg took out their hope of ever recovering long term.
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